This actually makes sense.
Who else would you have deliver, door-to-door, cipro or other antibiotics, on a massive basis? And not just leave it in the box, but a ding-dong face-to-face with a little flyer and personal encouragement, take the pills or get Q fever.
The idea has been around for a while, but was not implemented. It’s being done under Obama but was actually talked about during Bush I.
Sure FedEx and UPS deliver packages, but not to everyone in Chicago over a three-day period. The Postal guy fills my box with flyers from everyone from Alpha Beta to Pep Boys every day, and sometimes free samples of deodorant or cookies. Cipro or Erythro would fit right in this model.
Most people would not go to a hospital to pick up their free pills, unless they already have symptoms, in which case they might as well fill out their own toe-tags.
Some day, someone is going to unload a half-kilo of anthrax or similar, and if we don’t have a plan in place ready to go when BioWatch confirms a positive, the casualties will be astounding.
Can anyone think of a better way to deliver pharmaceuticals to an entire city in the shortest time?
Anyway, who needs gov drugs? Is this how socialized healthcare will work? How will they know what dosages they should mail to each household? How will we be billed? Will the gov take the money out of our bank accounts?
I agree there’s validity to the idea in theory, but certainly not in practice. The government mentality and general method of operation would turn it into a horrific bureacratic nightmare overnight.